As for Jamie Lynn’s own sisterly bond, fans have watched her and Britney’s ups and downs play out in the public eye.
While Britney expressed her love for Jamie Lynn in a December 2022 tribute and said in June 2023 that she visited her on the set of Zoey 102—the 2023 rom-com meant as a follow-up to the OG series—she’s also conveyed her hurt over the 13-year conservatorship and her younger sibling’s book Things I Should Have Said.
“As I was fighting the conservatorship and receiving a lot of press attention, she was writing a book capitalizing on it,” the “Piece of Me” artist wrote in her own book The Woman in Me, released in October 2023. “She rushed out salacious stories about me, many of them hurtful and outrageous. I was really let down.”
However, Britney, whose conservatorship ended in November 2021, has shared her desire to get to a better place with Jamie Lynn.
“She will always be my sister, and I love her and her beautiful family,” the 42-year-old added. “I’m working to feel more compassion than anger toward her and toward everyone who I feel has wronged me. It’s not easy.”
For her part, Jamie Lynn—who told Juju Chang in 2022 she “didn’t understand what was happening” when the conservatorship was put into place in 2008 and that she “took no steps to be a part of that”—has expressed confusion over how they got to this point.
“I’ve only ever loved and supported her and done what’s right by her, and she knows that,” she added in the ABC News interview. “So I don’t know why we’re in this position right now.”